Win7

Ever thought that your USB storage device was running slower than it should? It seems that the default settings for Windows 7 regarding the maximum transfer size are quite low (64KB in fact). This means your speeds may in fact be lower than what they potentially could be.

To help with this issue, Microsoft has release an update to help users potentially increase their USB storage device transfer speeds. KB2581464 is the knowledge base article and the KB2581464 fix can be downloaded from here. After the fix you can change the maximum transfer size from 64KB all the way up to 2MB with the following directions: